Minocycline chelates Ca2+, binds to membranes, and depolarizes mitochondria by formation of Ca2+-dependent ion channels
- 24 February 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes
- Vol. 42 (2), 151-163
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10863-010-9271-1
Abstract
Minocycline (an anti-inflammatory drug approved by the FDA) has been reported to be effective in mouse models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Huntington disease. It has been suggested that the beneficial effects of minocycline are related to its ability to influence mitochondrial functioning. We tested the hypothesis that minocycline directly inhibits the Ca2+-induced permeability transition in rat liver mitochondria. Our data show that minocycline does not directly inhibit the mitochondrial permeability transition. However, minocycline has multiple effects on mitochondrial functioning. First, this drug chelates Ca2+ ions. Secondly, minocycline, in a Ca2+-dependent manner, binds to mitochondrial membranes. Thirdly, minocycline decreases the proton-motive force by forming ion channels in the inner mitochondrial membrane. Channel formation was confirmed with two bilayer lipid membrane models. We show that minocycline, in the presence of Ca2+, induces selective permeability for small ions. We suggest that the beneficial action of minocycline is related to the Ca2+-dependent partial uncoupling of mitochondria, which indirectly prevents induction of the mitochondrial permeability transition.Keywords
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